Remember Individual Differences
During the first year,I will grow about 8-10 inches and triple my birth weight.
0-1 Months
I like to be warm, eat,
sleep, and have a lot of love and affection.
I can see best at about 8
inches from my face. I like to hear people talk.
I like to be held,
cuddled, and rocked; it won't spoil me.
I smile a 'pleasure'
smile.
2-4 Months
I love to watch faces,
real ones, and pictures of ones.
I like to coo when
someone talks to me.
I like being around
people and smile at them.
I know when I'm hot or
cold, what tastes good to me or not.
I stop and listen when I
hear Mommy coming
4-6 Months
I can reach out and touch
what looks inviting to me.
My hands are so fun to
look at and play with they taste good, too.
I like to taste
everything that comes near enough, or that I can get into my mouth.
I laugh when people
pretend to scare me and play with me.
6-8 Months
I can sit up, roll over,
crawl, scoot, and drag my body.
I love to be sung to and
to play peek-a-boo.
Sometimes I feel anxious
when strangers come around.
8-12 Months
I sometimes stand holding
on and sometimes I may even pull up on furniture.
I may cruise, toddle, or
stand without holding on.
Sometimes I wave bye-bye
and can understand words that relate to my own experience.
I like to look at myself
in the mirror.
Remember Individual Differences
During the second year, I will grow about four inches and gain about three to five pounds.
12-18 Months
I like to poke things into holes, stack things, and pour them out, especially when they make load noises.
I like to pinch and pat food, playdough, and other children.
Playing with water makes me feel full of power and control.
I know where my body parts are.
I can turn pages in a
book, scribble on paper, build a 3-4 block tower, and carry things
around.
I know between 3 and 50 words, and can put two words together, but still babble with inflection and intonation.
18-24 Months
I can walk up and down stairs, squat, run, stoop, and retrieve balls.
I can put 2-3 words together and know more than 5O words.Remember there is a wide range of individual differences
Sometimes I suddenly want to sit on Mommy's or Daddy's lap and I want one of them where I can find them.
I like to push and pull objects, run and crawl, slide and climb, and discover all the things I can do.
I often ask why.
I am interested in the simple things that have to do with my care, such as washing and drying.
These tasks take me a long time, but I do
not mind if I am not rushed and if I am given opportunity to do for
myself as I can and, also, if I have a warm understanding adult close
by to help me when I need it.
I like to play by myself a lot of the time
and be around older people.
If other children have something I want, I will take it from them.
Sometimes I just like to stand by and watch other children play, but I don't want to play with them.
I like to take things apart and put things together or fit one object inside of another.
I want to have each day somewhat similar because then I feel secure to experiment and to play eagerly and freely.
I want to touch and manipulate toys as well as other children.
I like to ray no, because I hear it so much, even when I mean yes.
Sometimes, when I have an accident, I want my Mommy to understand and not to punish me for it.
I want to help Mommy do things and know she loves me and wants me to help her.
Sometimes when I am playing, I don't want to be interrupted.
I want to find out why things happen, such as where does my milk go when I pour it out on the Roar.
I need to know that people around me love and under. stand me.
I like stories and picture books about familiar people and happenings.
Sometimes, when I am hurt, I want someone to comfort me.Remember individual differences
I'm ME, and I want alot of people to love me.
There isn't anyone else just like me.
I want to be a three-year-old, when that's what I am, and not to behave like a five-year-old; but, if I act two-year-old sometimes, I want it to be all right.
I want to find out how things work, and if I break things when I am experimenting, I want someone understand.
I want to know that when I feel like being bad, I can be bad and still be loved.
I want to know all the funny things that happen in this world, like what happens to water when you pour it on the ground.
I want to run and climb and discover all the things I can do.
I want to know what makes little girls different from little boys.
I want my mommy to show me when she loves me; and, when she is made at me, I want to know it
I want to show my mommy when I am mad at her, and have her understand and not mind too much; I want to show her when I love her.
I want to have fun with children my own
age: I want to fight with them, eat with them, mush in clay with
them and watch it ooze through everybody's
fingers, I want to hit them when I am mad or when they don't do what I
want, and most of the time I want to be with them.
Sometimes, I am very daughty and I want someone to help me stop being like that, because I don't know how to stop myself.
Sometimes, I don't even want to eat, and I hate it when someone tells me to.
Sometimes, I am scared of bees or sleeping or being left at the nursery by my mother. I need a lot of help then.
Sometimes, I have to kick someone's building down just to see what happens.
Sometimes, I am hurt and I want someone
to comfort me. Then I need to know that people around me love me and
understand. That makes me feel good, and when I feel good I can do lots
of things and like lots of people.
Remember individual differences
I can balance on one foot for a second or two.
I can throw a ball overhand.
I like to swing.
I can button my clothes, but I need some help to start the zipper on my jacket.
I can lace my shoes, but not tie them yet.
I can build wonderful, complicated things with blocks.
I can stay interested in something for 10 to 15 minutes.
I can really wash my hands well and dry them.
I'm not anxious about going to school without mother now.
I like to play with my friends at school.
I can take turns.
Sometimes I can share with a friend.
I am often kind of bossy.
I like to talk about everything.
When I ask questions, mother can say 'What do you think?' and that makes me try to think for myself.
I sometimes embarrass mother by commenting on anything, anytime.
I can talk a little about how I feel, when I'm sad or when I'm happy.
I am explosive...like dynamite.
I am learning differences, like day and night, or light and dark, or slow and fast.
I can understand sizes of things like bigger and smaller.
I am beginning to understand more about
time, like the parts of the day, morning and night, or days of the
week, or tomorrow and yesterday.